Hmm... Good now." Rae mumbled as took a deep breath, the metallic scent of blood present in his surroundings. He looked at the Viscount, curious about the effect of his healing ability.
"So, you have turned!"
...
'Turned? What does he mean? Is he referring to my ability to heal instantly.'
Ekaros had his limbs bent in unnatural direction, with a hole in his gut. Although he was in severe pain, his body still began to recover.
The unnatural limbs realignment was done on its own, he did not influence the healing consciously. Also, the hole in his body began to heal.
Though the speed of healing was not comparable to the speed that Rae had shown but it was still very fast. In a couple of seconds, less than a minute of time, his body was full healed including the hole in the flesh.
As he heard the words come out of Rae's mouth, he quickly thought about the rapid healing ability he had shown.
Even Ekaros himself was surprised that his body managed to regenerate to this extent.
'I am still a halfling vampire! I cannot even imagine the extent of my regeneration when I finally manage to reconstruct my body.'
Ekaros thought in anticipation, his unique bloodline which gave him the confidence to believe that he would win against Rae on a one on one fight was not a superpower but a bloodline of another race.
He did not know how but his corruption ability which worked when faced with blood and battle was a very thin bloodline ability from the vampires, a demon race.
However, when he thought over the topic, it all began to make sense. According to legends, the demon race known as Vampires feed on blood of humans. So, it was no surprise that blood awakened his bloodline.
And finally, when he outright began to consume human blood with the help of artifact, the demon bloodline within him fully awakened.
Sadly, his physical reconstruction was not yet completed because of the lack of resources in the artifact but his body still got an exponential increase in strength and physical regeneration.
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'Turning in some sense does mean becoming a demon... But how does he know? Is it possible to see through my bloodline with level four strength?'
Ekaros was suspicious, even scared. Being revealed as a demon meant asking to be killed by the royal enforcer. The traitor noble might have a chance to plead for mercy, but demons? Definitely not!! No chance.
But he was unsure if just being able to make physical construct of ki would allow the warriors to have such thorough investigation ability.
Ekaros cried out in pain but could not throw Rae off his body, whenever Ekaros tried to gather ki for an attack, he would be attacked by Rae lethally.
Tear!!
Rae gripped Ekaros from the shoulder and pulled on it with his full strength. The force caused Ekaros to cry again, his face contorted in pain as his hand was tore off from his shoulder. He was no longer able to regenerate his wound, at least not the one on his shoulder.
Tear!
Tear!
Rae was not the one to stop, there were men from the Viscount's forces that were gathering around the area because of the commotion, but none of the man dared to intervene in the fight.
They were already aware of the reputation and special identity of Rae, and decided to not intervene.
"You demon!!! Arghhh"
"Get off me!! Vivian, where are you!! You asshole, help me!!!!"
Ekaros unable to get out from the dangerous situation cried out for help. He knew that Vivian was there and could buy him a moment of relief. As for the other men under him? He did not call for them because they were too weak to even distract Rae for an opening.
Rae glanced back and he could see that Vivian was indeed coming up slowly to deliver a sneak attack on him. Since, he had already tore off both of Ekaros's hands, he could spare an instant to deal with Vivian.
Vivian on the other hand was really nervous. If he did not help Ekaros then he had a minute chance of running away from Rae and living his life in remote areas, outside of the noble's influence.
In the case he decided to follow up on the Viscount's order, then again he only had a very minute chance to survive Rae's attack while distracting him, and that was in case that Ekaros could kill Rae within the instant Vivian creates an opening.
In both scenarios, it was hard for him to survive. He did not have a regeneration ability like Rae an Ekaros. He decided to die off as a warrior and began to prepare his sword to attack Rae.
'Shield' Rae used his technique.
Vivian slashed his sword and as expected Rae easily blocked the sword slash with his physical construct of a thin shield, just with a single blue layer of a shield.
'
Shield seal
' Rae thought as he pumped in his ki to activate more of his physical construct skills. After he turned into a vampire, he was easily able to make physical constructs. From that day, he began to experiment with many skills.
Four thin shields manifested around Vivian and caged him from every direction, but unlike the name of his skill, the thin shields did not seal Vivian but began to press upon his body, trying to turn him into human paste.